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Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [RFC 17.05] test: move tests to separate folder
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On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 05:30:14PM +0000, Richardson, Bruce wrote:
> Just to be awkward :-), one last question: Why separate building and running
> the tests? My suggestion would be to have "make test" both build and run the
> tests. If there is no work to do in building them, then the time cost of the
> extra empty build is negligible compared to the time taken to actually run
> the tests.

+1

	--yliu

> If we really want to build the tests without running them I'd
> suggest "build_test" target instead. This keeps "make test" pretty much as
> it was before.
> 
> /Bruce